same sex marriage

Interracial marriage was prohibited and unacceptable in the United States, until the Supreme Court ruled such bans unconstitutional in 1967. There is no reason that the federal government, or anyone for that matter, should restrict marriage to a predefined heterosexual relationship. Because it is the right of the homosexual legally, socially, and economically, matrimony between lesbian and gay couples should be accepted in the United States. .
             The United States was founded on the Constitution in which all men are created equal; A class of individuals cannot be denied the basic human and legal right of marriage due to their sexual preference. Banning same-sex marriage has already been declared a violation of the constitution in the state of Hawaii. The case began in 1991 when three same-sex couples who had been denied marriage licenses by the Hawaii Department of Health, brought a lawsuit to the state court against the director of the department. Hawaii law required couples wishing to marry to obtain a marriage license. New York Times reporter David Dunlap notes that while the marriage license did not explicitly prohibit same sex marriage at that time, it used terms of gender that clearly indicated that only heterosexual couples could marry (Crew par. 6). In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a refusal to grant marriage licenses violated the state constitution (18). Even though the court found that the state of Hawaii's constitution had discriminated against homosexuals, presently there have been no same-sex marriage licenses that have been issued anywhere in Hawaii nor the entire United States. On the other hand, A columnist acknowledges that one state court should not dictate marriage laws for the entire nation: "If gay marriages become legal in Hawaii, other states may have to recognize them, as well, because the U.S. Constitution requires each state to grant "full faith and credit" to the acts of other states" (Strasser par.